 My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.  A History of Cambridgeshire - Page 191by John William Edward Conybeare - 1897 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 568 pages
...this piece of autobiography in his first sermon preached before Edward VI., 1549 : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or foure pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...verily that if it thus continue, we shall at length be constrained to pay for a pig a pound. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 328 pages
...describes his father's mode of living about the beginning of the sixteenth century, says : — " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 31. or 4:1. by the year, at the uttermost; and, hereupon, he tilled so much as kept half a... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 314 pages
...not in all cases given to the page. the paternal character and homestead. " My father/' he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 436 pages
...King Edward VI., that has drawn for us the paternal character and homestead. " My father," he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...verily that if it thus continue, we shall at length be constrained to pay for a pig a pound. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen... | |
 | George Long Duyckinck - 1861 - 234 pages
...biographers with their entire stock of information respecting his birth and parentage. " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm (on which he paid a rent) of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1862 - 516 pages
...Reformation. 26 Principle of State Interference. CH. i. had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1862 - 514 pages
...of the scale of rents before the Reformation. 26 CH. i. had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and... | |
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